Kaifeng Cat and Mouse Detective Manuscript

"I went back last night and used the sound transmission Gu to ask grandma. Guess what happened, the owner of that token is really an old acquaintance of my five poisons."

Tang Yu picked a fruit that Bai Yutang ate just now and prepared to feed it to the grape. The grape moved over and sniffed it, opened his mouth wide and swallowed it in one gulp, a small bag suddenly bulged in his stomach.Zhan Zhao rubbed it for him, Putao immediately lay down on the ground and motioned for him to continue, Bai Yutang silently covered his face, he absolutely wanted to wash Zhan Zhao's hands ten times after Tang Yu left!

"Old acquaintance? Could it be that he is a traitorous disciple?" Zhan Zhao joked after playing with grapes.

"It doesn't count, Qi Xinxie, the owner of Suoyu Building in Kunlun Mountain, knows?"

"Qixinxie?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both looked up.Zhan Zhao had heard of this place before, but this was the first time Bai Yutang knew about it.

"And this Qi Xinxie has some great connections with the Tongtian League." Tang Yu covered his mouth with his hand and whispered, "Does Yu Shaotian know why he died, just because of Qi Xinxie?"

"Huh?" Bai Yutang was surprised.

"This gossip has been going on for too long, and Tongtianmeng has been suppressing it. No one knows about it except my grandma and the older generation. I heard that Yu Shaotian and Qi Xinxie were good brothers. Later, because a woman turned against each other, the woman died. Madam Yu!"

"So Qi Xinxie came here to poison Yu Yufei now?" Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao and said.

"What poisonous killing?" Tang Yu hurriedly asked.

"Mao'er and I saw two men in black from Yu Yufei's courtyard yesterday..." Bai Yutang told Tang Yu verbatim about what he saw yesterday.

"However, why didn't Qi Xinxie come sooner or later, and only came to Yu Shaotian after he was seriously ill?" Tang Yu asked.

"What is the connection between Qi Xinxie and the Five Poisons?" Zhan Zhao felt that it was becoming more and more complicated now, from Jinshui Town to talk about Tongtianmeng, and from Tongtianmeng to a Suoyulou whom he had never seen before.

"After Qi Xinxie had a falling out with Yu Yufei in the early years, one came to Jiuhua to learn martial arts, and the other went to south Yunnan to practice poison. Later, there were Tongtianmeng and Suoyulou. However, Suoyulou has never been active in the Jianghu, and it is on the edge of the Song Dynasty. You probably don't know very well."

Tang Yu explained a few words casually, but he didn't know exactly what Suoyulou Qixinxie was.

"I once heard his name in the Sky Tower, and then I asked someone to check, but there was no news."

Zhan Zhao remembered that when Bai Yutang returned to the empty island, he asked Qianxianglou to inquire about it. Qianxianglou, who always claimed to know everything, returned empty-handed after two months of investigation.

"That's right, Suoyulou has always been the only place to investigate other people." Tang Yu nodded, "And I heard from my grandma that Qi Xinxie is mysterious and unpredictable, and he is good at using hidden weapons and poisons. I wonder if the Jinshui Town incident is the same. He did it."

"If Qi Xinxie seeks revenge on Yu Shaotian because of Mrs. Yu, then it makes sense. We can understand that Yu Yufei went to Jinshui Town, was poisoned by Qi Xinxie, and then accidentally killed the whole family of Jinshui Town. Instead of killing him, let Qi Xinxie chase after him instead?" Bai Yutang tapped his head, slowly sorting out this relationship.

"It's so messy, so messy, go get tangled up in this matter, anyway, I'll go back to southern Yunnan with brother Yan after detoxifying Yu Shaotian." Tang Yu rested his chin on the edge of the table, teasing the grapes with his mouth bulging.

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In the mourning hall, Yu Shaotian knelt on one side and burned paper, the steward and four elders stood on two tables to entertain the guests, and three mourning girls sat beside the coffin, howling louder than each other.

Bai Yutang dragged Zhan Zhao out, if he stayed any longer, his ears might be deafened.

Zhan Zhao followed him around. Fortunately, the people who came today were all locals from Jiuhua. Most of them had never seen Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang before, so they didn't need to go up to greet them.

Gradually, the two turned to the high platform where the man in black was chasing last night. Zhan Zhao stood on the edge and looked towards Jiangyin River. He could see it more clearly during the day than at night.

Bai Yutang nodded, followed Zhan Zhao to the ferry, and before he stepped on the board, he heard several fishermen gather together, "I don't know who killed a thousand knives last night, smashed my bench!"

"And my penny was thrown into the water," another middle-aged man echoed.

Zhan Zhao held back his laughter, remembering the kick last night, Bai Yutang stepped forward without looking sideways, and asked the old man whose bench was smashed, "How much is it to go to the other side?"

"Five coins, is the young man from the Tongtian League?"

Seeing a guest coming, the old man put out the tobacco with a handful of water, fastened the pole of the tobacco pot behind his waist, and stood up to support the pole.

Zhan Zhao nodded, and jumped onto the boat with his right foot, "Are there a lot of guests coming and going today?"

"That's right, around noon, a lot of people passed by this ferry. The younger boys in white first stood up on the inside, but this side is not stable, so be careful to fall into the water." Seeing Bai Yutang standing on the outside of the boat, the old man was worried. He accidentally fell down and opened his mouth quickly.

Zhan Zhao pulled Bai Yutang's belt and hooked it in, and the two sat directly on the newly placed bench in the middle.

Jiangyin River branched from Kaifeng, and it happened to be a bend to Tongtianmeng. The wind was blocked by the side cliffs on weekdays, and the boats were as smooth as the ground when they rolled by.

After about a cup of tea, Bai Yutang landed after paying the boat fare, and then quietly threw a penny into the net bag at the stern as an apology for last night.

Except for a not-so-wide dirt road on the bank, there are dense forests on both sides, and fallen leaves and stones are piled up on the side of the road, and they creak when you step on them. The further you walk into the forest, the more obstacles under your feet. This kind of mountain forest is not difficult for them.

"Who?" Halfway through, Bai Yutang stopped suddenly, and a stone flew out of his hand and hit the forest.

A black shadow jumped down from the branch and stopped not far away.

Zhan Zhao recognized that it was Qi Xinxie, the landlord of the Suoyu Tower he met last night, and hurriedly stepped forward to catch up. He put his left hand on his shoulder and was thrown off before he could use any force. Que, don't make a move.

The two gradually chased him to the depths of the dense forest. Qi Xinxie took out a round pill from his arms and threw it on the ground. Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang was worried that he would poison him, so he jumped onto the trees behind him one by one from left to right, and waited to take a look. Qi Xinxie had disappeared.

"What is Qi Xinxie up to?" Bai Yutang looked around and found out that this place was artificially built.

"There is a stone in each of the twelve directions, with wooden stakes in the middle..." Zhan Zhao also found out.

"Is it a sundial?" The two asked at the same time.

Just as he was about to walk forward, Bai Yutang suddenly stepped on the ground for some reason, and involuntarily grabbed Zhan Zhao with his palm, and the two fell into a well one after the other.

"........."

Zhan Zhao pushed Bai Yutang who was on top of him. Fortunately, a lot of dead leaves fell in the well, which was a thick layer, and he didn't get hurt when he fell on it.

"Damn it!" Bai Yutang cursed secretly, propped himself up on the ground and sat looking for Juque and Zhanlujian. The well was too dark, they suddenly fell from the light, their eyes hadn't adjusted yet, they couldn't see at all clear.

After a while, Zhan Zhao got up and walked along the well wall, "That black figure seems to have lured us here on purpose?"

After calming down, Bai Yutang also thought of the loophole at that time. Since they entered the forest, they were monitored by the shadows, and they were led step by step until they fell here.

"Look here," Bai Yutang knocked Zhanlu on the protruding stone in front of him, only to hear a crash, the stone wall parted from the middle, opening a path.

"It turned out to be a fake well", Zhan Zhao stepped forward first, with the giant que placed across his chest to prevent accidents.

The air slowly came in from the well, and lights were lit on both sides of the road, strangely white, leading directly to a stone room not far away.Bai Yutang reached out his hand to touch the lamp socket, his fingers were instantly stained with a few white particles, which turned into flames before he could take a closer look.

"Phosphorus fire?" Zhan Zhao looked sideways.

"It seems that people often come to this place." If the white phosphorus is stored for too long, it will gradually melt. Only by frequenting this place can the white phosphorus be ignited when exposed to air.

Going further in, the phosphorus fire was gradually replaced by oil lamps, several flints were placed at the door of the stone room, and Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went to light them one by one, and a huge room appeared in front of them.

The whole body of the stone room is covered with black unknown materials, and the walls are depressed except for the stone platform in the middle.The stone platform was also very strange, about one person high and six feet wide, with totem-like things painted on it, Zhan Zhao took down the torch on the wall, and walked slowly with Bai Yutang to light it.

"This is……"

Bai Yutang put his fingers on the totem, and the thing in front of him looked like a tiger but not a tiger. It was made of black graphite and dyed with bright red dye. There was a word "king" between his eyebrows and two wings on his shoulders.

"Look this way." Zhan Zhao moved the torch aside and pointed to the right side of the stone platform. Bai Yutang was even more surprised when he saw it.I saw a woman painted on the bottom, with dark skin, blue eyes, and a big knife in her hand. She was by no means a member of the same clan.Combined with the "tiger" above, it happens to be a woman holding a knife, ready to ride the tiger and charge forward.The whole picture is full of weirdness.

Bai Yutang continued to walk to the side, and lines of text were revealed.

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao was surprised.

"how?"

"The words on it are the same as those written in the books in the Round Tower of Jinshui Town."

"Strange, strange, here is not far from the Tongtian League. If someone dug a hole, Yu Yufei must be the first to know. In addition, Yu's darts appeared in Jinshui Town. It can only be said that this place is definitely out of touch with the Tongtian League. Nothing to do!"

Bai Yutang continued to tap around the stone platform, but he didn't know what he pressed, and moved the stone platform aside, Zhan Zhao quickly pulled Bai Yutang back ten steps.

"This place is very interesting." Bai Yutang leaned forward and looked forward by the light of the fire. It turned out that there was a hole where the stone platform was, and it probably could allow one person to enter and exit.

"I'll go down and have a look first." Although Bai Yutang's lightness kung fu was not as good as Zhan Zhao's, he was very good at tricks. Zhan Zhao didn't say much, and handed him the torch in his hand.Bai Yutang took it, walked to the entrance of the cave, took out a stone and threw it down, there was a ding ding dong dong sound, it sounded like a stone slab.

Bai Yutang nodded to Zhan Zhao and then jumped down. After Zhan Zhao went down, he half-kneeled and looked down from the entrance of the cave, and saw Bai Yutang holding a torch waiting for him to come down.